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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-24

Montreal has been destroyed by fire at sea.
{ rhe City Of Montreal left New ~ ork Aug.
& for Liyerpool. IS She was commanded BY
Capt Land She mad 400 passengers and
ali wire saved but six Seven OF the crew
wera lost These persons were Ill IN one
boat which swamped
The result Of the Kentucky election
lis officially proclaimed, complete returns
B from the counties in the state having heen
received at the Office Of the secretary OF
state. showing the following result: Buck
4 ner, l44, 6l9; Bradley, l27 Fox, 400;
Cardin, Z, 44S7 The maj ority of Buckner
over Bradley q, 0l5.
Ex- GOV. Luke q. Black burn, who
/ has been dangerous ~ at Frankfor KY,
L to- some weeks, I'll rapidly sinking and his
"a eath may be expected at any moment.
His family, including his brother, Senator
& Rack burI1. IS b ave been sum nOneda to- his
bedside. His tronbl - Brightts disease and
heart affection.
Il is said that Hugh n Brooks,
alias Maxwell, the famous chIorof ormer, of
I Prellar, turned his attentto &, to religious
& naattsrs about y ear ago and ,gas received
into the C6thOlic church The young mans
Il father. who Is sti ll III Ii. Lonis, IL MUCH
2rsjoiced at tho change that has come over
his son. sg
he eommissio ners Of the District of
Columbia have issnsd au order prohih iting
the uss st thu IA q ot the Ba and
Ohio Ra ilroad company for passenger trains.
0OfaciaI notioe that the lnex imln speed of
staar VI Cur Within the city limit viii heres
liter 81 tWslvs 1iles pr hour been
Isryed.
The excit ment 81 " inchest y.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-24
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CAMP- N EETINe, q John Allen, d
Maine, IS now attending his s7sd camp.
meeting. He IS so years Old. ss
RE William I. CoLEslAN Is Co, Of San
Francisco have cleared IS, DOC, 900 sin
their salmon operations this season.
VENICE oilers, who 5inaug urated
. strike some time ago. have been com
PEELED Ito acknow dge themselves de
feated. # .s5 NE ssza5 sa 4.
SEVENTY thousand deaths from
3 cholera were reported during June and
July in the northwest provinces 81
India. III
RosCoE CoNKLING is one Of the
strongest amateur swimmers at Coney
Island. and it is said he can float with
the tide for hours at q time. =
@ SHIvERs & BURNS, is the title Of a
firm in Wichita, kas., and between the
two they are able to enjoy fine medium
weather all the year round.
The King and Queen Of Saxony
Saturday opened an international
bakery exhibition at Dresden. .Ameri-
ca is largely represented, but there are
no specimens of the famous chrome
yellow buns Of Philadelphia.
A Miss CUMMINGS was recently in
troduced to q Mr.. Goings at Buffalo,
and after hearing each others name
they looked mystifed for q moment
and then compr omised by sitting down.
# OLIVER JOHNSON corrects the state
ment that ..Uncle Tom Cabin was
written at Andover, and declares that
Brunswick, Me-, was the place, where
the authors husband was at the time a
professor in BoWdoin College.
LORD CHARLES BEREsFORD was re-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22

HENRY NJ STANLEY lated upon with
great precision in detail, and the eminent
services of the supposed dead explorer are re-
counted at length and in Mandatory language.
In spite of these elaborate tributes to the
famous traveller and author, however, the re-
ports of his death are discredlted by the pa
pers publishing them, and even the West
African Telegraph company, through whose
agency the news was brought, is unable to
verify the statements.
A variety of theories are advanced to &C
count for the report, but none Of them has
even as plausible foundation as the rumor
itself The one most generally accepted,
however, is that the native who brought the
news to Matadi reported that a white
chief had been killed, and that the mission
ary who forwarded the rumor assumed that
the white chief was Mr. Stanley. Still, it
is strange that no one engaged In manu-
featuring theories to refute the probability
that the missionary was right in assuming
that the report of Mr. Stanley's death was
correct have ventured to presume that the
story of his having left Aruwim on June 2 or
3 can have been untrue Geographic mistakes
are of constant occurrence in countries where
tilt dtHlt VI ctitibiiit anu thCNhuh
ical skill in guarding against them has been
reached, and why are they not possible and
even probable in a country where almost ev-
cry one of the conditions favorable to aeon.
racy in transmitting dispatches are either i'm
paired OF wholly lacking.
Col Frederick Strauch, president of the
African International association, telegraph'
TO The United Press representative from Brus
sells, stating that he has not received the news
of Stanley having been killed Stanley, be
states, left Aruwimi June for Wadeloi
The king of the Belgians has telegraphed t.
the representative of The United Press, il
reply to an inquiry, that neither he nor tbs
Belgian government has any knowledge o.
the whereabouts of Mr. Stanley other thar
conveyed in dispatch received Wednesday
reporting his departure from Aruwimi OF
June s. His majesty feels convinced of thu
| correctness of that report, and gives no cred
ence to the rumor of the explorers death.
Neither the Church Missionary society moi
the Baptist Missionary society has received
any tidings of Mr. Stanley, although there i
Baptist Missionary station under American
auspices at Matadi
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22

presented was much larger than locally pre-
sented by the st. Louis people on traffic west
of st. Louis The trunk line classification
since the enactment of the Interstate law
largely increases the number of articles upon
which differential rates are imposed when
shipped in less than carloads Substantially
the determinations are thus made in favor
of shippers which were formerly made
by means of rebates and drawbacks which
the interstate commerce law was designed
to prevent The circumstances are greatly
aggravated over those complained of at st.
Louis. More than half of the cars of tn
trunk lines go west empty, and no cause ex
lists for such discrimination He asked that
the question be not decided until the commits
sion shall have had time to hear and consider
it in all its bearings 1t touched the very
foundation of rate-making principles, and it
would be better to postpone its decision until
autumn, rather than decide hastily. He
filed very comprehensive printed petition
upon the subject A complaint from the
New York board of trade and transportation
against the trunk lines will be filed with the
commission in few days
Mr.. T. E Greene, manager of the merchants
freight bureau of New York city, and repre-
senting large number of retail grocers in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, also joined Mr. Thurber in urging
the commission to investigate this matter
thoroughly. In behalf of the organization
he represents he filed a petition, in
which it is asserted unequivocally
that undue preferences in freight rates given
to shippers of carload lots, and withheld
from shippers of less quantity, are now en-
bodied in the tariffs and schedules; not only
of the Missouri Pacific railroad, as shown in
the complaint of classification before you, but
also in the tariffs and schedules of other rail
roads, and especially of the railroads known
as trunk lines, embraced in the territory ex-
tending from the seaboard to the Mississippi
river and north of the Potomac and Ohio
rivers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22

New YORK, July EN- the suit of the
American Bell Telephone company and others
against the Globe Telephone company and
others to restrain Infringement of the patent for
improvements in telephones issued to Alexan-
der Graham Bell March Z, 1876, which was ar
gued in the United States circuit court two
months ago, Judge Wallace has handed down
a decision in favor of the Bell company In
his opinion Judge Wallace says the Massa-
chusetts circuit court virtually decided i'll a
similar suit that Bell was the discoverer of
the new art of transmitting speech by cleo
tricitv, and the claim should be given the
broadcast Interpretation to secure to The in
ventor not the abstract right of sending
sounds by telegraph without regard 10 mean
ing, but all means and processes described
which are essential to the application OF the
principle
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
SAM PERKINS TESTIMONY.
One of the indianapolis Conspirators Gives
the Others Away.

One of the indianapolis Conspirators Gives
the Others Away.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 22-The court
room was crowded with people when the trial
Of the election conspirators was begun Thurs
day Samuel E. Perkins was the first wit
ness called. and his testimony was decidedly
sensational and direct against Sim Coy
chairman of the Democratic county commit
tec,, Matten, Beck Congressman Bynums
law partner, Henry Span and others.
He said that Sim Coy came to him on the
day the canvassng board met and said that
the candidate for criminal court judge was
behind and needed about eighty votes to elect
him. At the instance of Coy the witness
went to Allen, the inspector and secured
his tally sheet. Then he and Coy went to
rear room in the court house, where, with
Coy's knife, he erased sixteen votes from IT.
wins tallies and added them to Ayres' While
thus engaged Matter came in and his tallye
sheets were similarly changed. Later Coy
told the witness that Matter had changed his
tally sheets back again, because the ink
which Perkins Fad used was different from
that used by the election boards Coy
then sent Reardon, another defendant, 10
purchase ink such as had been used by the
election officers After the witness returned
to the room where the canvassing board was
sitting Albert Beck, Congressman bynum's
law partner, came to him and asked him to
change the tally sheets which he had under
his arm Witness refused, but gave Beck
Coy's knife and directed him TO the east end
ROOM where Coy was changing the returns
Witness stated that he and DR. Metcal
talked the matter over, and Metcaf procured
some acid, which they tried upon an envel-
ope, and Metcalf took this to the Grand
hotel, where Coy had engaged room
That night when the board was in session a
motion was made to bring certain of the
sealed tally-sheets to the room and count the
returns from them At that Juncture Henry
Spaan said to the witness: What
in hi do you mean by that mo-
tiona How can You count the altered
tally sheets if the other returns are brought
here9" On another occasion Spaan told the
witness that he and others had raised
s., 400, and that it had been used in
influencing the federal grand jury not to find
indictments This was before the first grand
jury met, and the money was sent to the
counties where the jurors lived, it being con-
coded that they could he influenced more cas-
ily by their friends at home than after reach
ing this city.
The witness was subjected to rigid cross
examination, but his testimony was not
shaken
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
LITERALLY TORN TO PIECES.
Frightful Slaughter of Italian Laborers by
a Locomotive.


NEW York, July 22-An awful death
overlook a party of Italians working on the
roadbed of the Erie railway between Allen
dale and Hohokus, Thursday morning. There
were 100 in all busy at the time, and dozen
of them were literally torn to pieces. The
account of the disaster is as follows:
The Italians were at work near a curve
when a train came along, and they stepped
to the other track to allow it to go by just
then the Chicago express Numbered down at
forty miles an hour, and literally moved its
way through, singing the unfortunates right
and left, tearing legs and arms and heads off
and grinding flesh into the road-bed for 200
or 800 feet So fierce was the shock that. al
though the engine struck nothing but human
beings, the powerful cow-catcher was torn,
twisted, and broken into pieces
Some of the Italians were crowded in
against the rocks in a very narrow space, and
they crouched down in terror
The engineer of the express reversed his en-
CINE and was coming to a stop when the pas
sengers told him to go ahead Looking back,
they saw the uninjured Italians acting like
maniacs They were yelling, grsticulating,
and tearing their clothes. Some were kueel-
Ing anu Otnefs TusniflS dppuI III tue fnluuie OF
the CHASTITY pile of mangled bottles. When
they saw the train stopping they
made a rush for it, and, had they
reached 1t, undoubtedly the engin-
gineer fireman, and conductor would have
been murdered For this reason it was
deemed best to come on TO Jersey City.
Here the engineer and conductor were clos,
eted with the officers of the road where they
could not be interviewed 1t is understood
however, that the engineer says he could not
see the emn until he was almost on them
because of the curve. He whistled and re-
versed. but it was of no avail-the distance
was too short to stop the train in and the
Italians were unable to get out of the way ii
time
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
THE Russo-FRENcH UNDERSTANDING
Recent Indications That 1t Is An Accom-.
plished Fact


plished Fact.
LONDON, July 22.-The Pail Mall Gazette
prints sensational and in some respects
alarnist editorial beginning with the cap
ton what Does This Meanl' and straight
way going on to tell what the man in The
Gazette office thinks it means The attitude
of France in regard to Egypt, the article
says, is extremely menacing. Hitherto the
claims of the French government, while they
have been extravaganza and unwarranted,
have been models of modest requirement
compared with those she now puts for b, and
the basis of her access of arrogance is easily
discernible In insisting upon equal rights
in Egypt with England, France plainly
shows that she is being egged on
by Russia, and the suspicion re-
Gently aroused that those two
countries are pursuing preconcerted Euro
pean policy is confirmed
Latterlv France has followed the lead OF
Russia in every important European move
ment Her prompt notification to the sultan
that she would refuse to recognize the cleo
ton of Ferdinand as prince of Bulgaria upon
precizelv the same grounds that Russia takes
for withdrawing her approval-ths invalid.
ty of the acts of the present sobranje-caI
have had no other incentive than the infu
ence of Russia, since France has at no tinis
prior to this evinced any concern in the gen
uineness of the Bulgarian assembly as rep
resentative body, or questioned the validity Of
its proceedings.
The sudden settlement of the Afghan
frontier question after two years Of wranglint
and the almost passive acceptanceby Russi'
of much less in the way of territorial advan
tage than she has all along insisted upon ar
regarded as very suspicious, and the natura
inference is that the cars government, hav
! ing completed its alliance with France,
anxious to get the Afghan matter out of tn
way in order that it may not hamper Rus
| sia's operations in the Balkans
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
COMPLAINING MERCHANTS.

A Question BEFORE the Interstate Conn
mission of Far-Beachiny Significance
WASHINGTON CITY, July ga delegation
representing the associated wholesale grocers,
OF st. Louis, and u number of Missouri Pa
cific railway officials, had hearing before
the Interstate commerce commission Thurs
day. The case is the complaint of the St
Louis groeers against the railroad company,
alleging unjust freight charges on st. Louis
merchandise, especially upon grocery ship
ments in small quantities, as compared with
the freight rates upon the same articles be-
tween the same points when in carload lots.
The commission heard brief statements from
both sides and then adjourned for the day.
Just before adjournment, Mi: F. B. Thur
Der, representing the New FORK board of
trade and transportation, mast e brief state
ment bearing on the subject involved in this
controversy. AR T.artar said the question
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
TANNER TELLS HIS STORY,
And 1t Develops Several Utterly Contra
dietoTy Statements.

LONDON, July 22-ln the house of CON-
mons Thursday evening DR. Tanner, member
for middle Cork, arose to an explanation of
the difficulty between himself and Mr.. Wal
ter H. Long member for Devices, in which
the former was accused of having INDUCED in
insulting and abusive language, He regret
ted, he said. that the house had been put to
the trouble of taking the matter under con-
sideration, and alleged that Longs manner
and language was such that he could not but
believe he intended to annoy and humiliate.
and that in so doing he was carrying out his
part in preconcerted arrangement to that
end Upon meeting Long in the lobby that
gentleman had said: That was nice sell you
got" referring to the fact that he Tanner,
had not been recorded as voting in certain
division Tanner said he regretted having
replied to Long, and took the present coca
sion to withdraw the indecorous expressions
he had used
7 Long denied that he had used the language
imputed TO him by Dr. Tanner, and declared
that be had not said anything about sell )"
Bond and Bigwood each declared that he
was present, and confirmed the statement of
Long as to the latter's innocence of the re-
marks charged against him. 0'Hea. member
for Donegal, asserted that he heard Long
use the words mentioned and said that Long
had also Joined others in jeering Tanner.
Goldsmid urged that the whole matter be
dropped
Smith regretted that he was unable to COM
ply with Goldsnid's request Parliament
must mark its sense of the misconduct of its
members.
Gladstone contended that Tanners apology
should suffice Smith was ill-advised in sug-
gesting that Tanners statement imputed
falsehood to Long. Did not Long" he
asked in like manner impute falsehcod to
Tanner Was the Imputation of an Irish
member one thing and the irnputation of an
English member another tCbeers
The speaker said that Tanners apology and
retractiou should be held TO cover his offense.
and Smith thereupon withdrew the motion
to suspend Tanner for month aud the incl
dent ended
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22

PARIS, July 2.-The annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Panama canal was
held Thursday and presided over by NJ DE
Lesseps. The annual report read at the meet
ing was less positive IN stating that the canal
would be completed in 1852 than the previous
reports and speeches OF NJ. De Lesseps, but
expressed the hope that the connection be-
tween the two oceans might he made by that
time, after which the work of finishing the
canal would be prosecuted vigorously. Dom
Pedro IL, emperor of Brazil, was present at
the meeting
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22
GUNS TOO BIG FOR HER.
The Atlanta's Batteries Totally Disabled
by 1Irn Shnfs

The Atlanta's Batteries Totally Disabled
by Tive shots.
WASHINGTON CITY, July 90 Capt Bunce,
Of the Atlanta, has forwarded to the secreta
~ of the navy detailed report of the off
GERS appointed by him to examine into the
damage done the ship by the firing in Gard
neI's bay. The report shows that windows
and china basins were broken by the violence
of the recoil and large chest was also
thrown overheard Capt Bunce comment
ing on the report says the result of the firing
has been TO completely disable both eight
inch breech loading gun carriages, and to
throw doubt upon the efficiency of the six
itch breech-lOading gun carriages The ar
raugement of the battery has proven bad
Secretary Whitney, with both reports be
fore him Thursday, commented as follows:
The reports are not very favorable as to the
first trial of the guns of the Aslanta, but as
vel no matters of great moment have turned
up. The trouble, to my mind, is this: If two
rounds OF her battery gives this result what
will dozen do. And it is that which we
are called on 10 ascertain And the secre-
tary indicated that the vessel would be thor
oughly tested at all points, and her weak
nesses discovered. wherever they may lie
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-22

II Is tue tenuenCy Oh every oouy Vi men
to magnify the Importance of their Own
profession, but it is seldom that this ten
dency is carried to a more unreasonable
extent than by the national teachers cons
vention at Chicago last week. Resolu
tions were passed by the association or
by sections asking a great many things
which are summarized as follows BY the
Chicago Times. National aid for public
schools in the southern states. better
system of schools for the Indians. the
Introduction OF free kindergarten in>
in cookery and needlework in all schools
IN which girls are taught, the establish
menL of free libraries and night schools,
the support of normal schools for all
classes of teachers, the enactment OF laws
for compulsory attendance on schools, the
introduction of manual training in all
grades of schools, instruction in music,
drawing. painting, modelling 10 clay light
and heavy gymnastics. the extension OF
the graded system of schools and central
supervision into the rural districts, the
mere ase of salaries paid to teachers and
superintendents, making the tenure of
educators permanent, and the granting Of
pensions to teachers after certain term
of service.
Some of the above requests are absurd,
while others are unwise and unjust to the
taxpayers To the former class belong
the demand for the introduction of cook
cry needlework. drawing, painting. mod
cling in clay, etc, in the public schools.
A knowledge of these accomplishments
may be. and probably is, desirable, but
nevertheless it is certain that the public
school is not the place to acquire them
The crying evil of our public school sys>
TEN at present is superfluous studies
During the few years that the average
scholar spends at the public schools his
attention is distracted by multiplicity OF
studies of most of which he gaiBs but a
very uncertain comprehension II
would be more beneficial to the student
if he were thoroughly grounded in the
few essential branches; certainly it
would be a great advantage to the tax
payer.
The request for pensions for school
teachers will, of course, never be granted
and ought not to be. The system of pen
sions to public servants is contrary to the
American idea of government. Besides
there is no reason why if teachers are to
be pensioned the same favors should not
be extended to every person who draws
bis wages from the public purse.
1t will be observed that the teachers al
so have their eye on that surplus. That
is about the substance of their plea for
federal aid to education.
In regard TO the still further extension
of normal schools the ARGUS will only
observe that it is unable too see why the
state should undertake the task of manu-
featuring teachers any more than that it
should engage in making lawyers doctors
dentists, ministers or politicians.
All in all, it does not seem likely that
the ideas set forth by the Chicago con-
vention will meet with very enthusiastic
support outside of the immediate peda-
gogic circle 1t is at least safe to say
that the taxpayer will be unable to see
where he comes in.